Intubated in a Sentence?

The patient was taken to the intensive care unit intubated. The physicians intubated, ventilated, and diuresed her aggressively over the next 10 days. They intubated, ventilated, and treated her with antibiotics.

What means intubated?

Intubation is a procedure that's used when you can't breathe on your own. Your doctor puts a tube down your throat and into your windpipe to make it easier to get air into and out of your lungs. A machine called a ventilator pumps in air with extra oxygen.

Are you awake when intubated?

The two arms of awake intubation are local anesthesia and systemic sedation. The more cooperative your patient, the more you can rely on local; perfectly cooperative patients can be intubated awake without any sedation at all. More commonly in the ED, patients will require sedation.